{"id":551541,"date":"2026-03-21T16:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/551541\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T16:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T16:31:09","slug":"cambridge-united-1-0-salford-city-gibbons-goal-gives-us-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/551541\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge United 1-0 Salford City &#8211; Gibbons goal gives U&#8217;s victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James Gibbons scored the only goal as Cambridge deservedly beat Salford to move five points clear of their League Two promotion rivals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The home side missed a big chance in the ninth minute when a deep Kell Watts cross found Gibbons, who could only fire wide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Matt Young held a Mamadou Jobe header, the Us again created a big chance on the half-hour when Young denied Sullay Kaikai at the end of a rapid Cambridge break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their dominance was rewarded four minutes after half-time when James Brophy&#8217;s free-kick from near halfway was guided into the far corner by a superb Gibbons header.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Salford offered very little, being handed their first real opening on 75 minutes when goalkeeper Jake Eastwood gifted them the ball before recovering to deny Princewill Ehibhatiomhan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three minutes later Eastwood made a vital stop when Ryan Graydon had been played through on goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shayne Lavery could only fire weakly at Young five minutes from the end, but the Us had done enough to solidify their position of third in the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Report supplied by PA Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Gibbons scored the only goal as Cambridge deservedly beat Salford to move five points clear of their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-551541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}